PFLP and Hamas Give Update on State of Ceasefire

Hamas Political Bureau member Abduljabbar Saeed to Quds News:

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We explained to the mediators that talking about a Peace Council in this form represents a type of new Mandate, which is absolutely unacceptable. The Palestinian people are not minors looking for guardians.

Our position is firm: Disarmament is equivalent to removing the soul… As for handing over weapons or abandoning them without a price, this is absolutely out of the question.

If the choice is a real Palestinian state, then Hamas’s weapons will become part of the state’s weapons. But if that is not on the table, no one will hand over their weapon without a return.

We told the occupation and the Americans via the mediators: If you say you have destroyed 90% of Hamas’s military infrastructure, then which weapons are you talking about? The real goal is not Hamas’s weapons, but the legitimacy of the weapon itself.

The Al-Qassam Brigades is the decision-maker on the ground in this file [fighters behind the ‘Yellow Line’]; it manages it strongly and clearly… Rumors about the movement abandoning them are absolutely untrue.

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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Deputy Secretary-General Jamil Mezher in his speech today:
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We will remain on our choice with the people who stood firm among the rubble. To tell the world: We will not submit. And we will not bow. And we will not leave the land and the homeland.We call on mediators and guarantors to compel the occupation to implement the ceasefire agreement and stop all forms of manipulation or evasion of implementation, and provide a safe environment that guarantees recovery, lifting the siege, and opening all crossings.We call for speeding up the formation of a temporary, technocratic national administration in Gaza to manage the transitional phase, far from guardianship projects. We reject any international guardianship that legitimizes the occupation. Any formation of international forces must not exceed deployment on contact lines only, while the Palestinian police handle the management of security affairs inside the Strip.

The homeland is built by the solidarity of the loyal, not by silence over thieves and the corrupt. We emphasize restoring social justice and forming National Steadfastness Committees to protect the rights of our people, stop exploitation, hold exploiters accountable, and enhance the solidarity of our people.

We affirm that the weapon of resistance is a political issue and part of the tasks of national consensus on the national political strategy, and not part of the occupation’s conditions.

The inalienable right of return is the fundamental pillar of our national cause. The Palestinian cause is in its essence a project of liberation and return, not a project of security arrangements.

We pledge to the masses of our great people in the homeland and the diaspora that we will remain faithful to the blood of the martyrs. And we will continue to hold the compass that never wavers and the advanced line of defense for Palestine in the face of displacement and liquidation projects.